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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadia HashimiMatthew Tree|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its ShellWe'll Never Know
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|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima and her sisters are followed home Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from school one day by his father, a boy on drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his bikeartistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys doSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but with no sibling brother, the girls are unchaperoned in this land that is ruled by the laws of men. And as daughters in a household without sons, in a country that is governed by fear, the consequences will weigh heavily for them allachievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norah VincentB0C47LV1PC|title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Back in 1999, when ''The Hours'' won the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolf's later life and suicide. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Woolf in the film version of the novel; she is best remembered for wearing a prosthetic nose. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 alone, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been published. That confluence, especially in a year that does not mark a significant anniversary, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFragility|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseMosby Woods
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|summary=If Can you pick up make a copy of this book ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you realise how small it is. You'll know, of coursecould, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is the exception to prove question should you make it? Or is the rule. It's wee. question if you did, would it land? The story catch is on a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after that the beginning, answer for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large both could well in the middle of a forestbe.... no. Tasked with a family errand, they ''Fragility''re trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even a desperate move cannot get either out. This is set as the story city of the next three months in their existencePortland, as they brave hungerOregon, delirium, loss of language, and cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>covid pandemic
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jamie KornegayMosby Woods|title=Soil|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jay Mize is a scientific man with a particular interest in soil and agriculture. He decides he is the one to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land in the country. Jay is also an obsessive man and his plans take over, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave him. Then flooding ruins his crops and he is left at the end of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is released.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Campbell|title=RiseA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
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|summary=Justine The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is running for her life. She's had enough of being someone else's property, of being subjected quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the kind best course of love action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that has seen her tattooed and owned and beaten and rented out to others to earn her keepnobody is in actual charge. So she's taken what isn't hersImagine then, but then there was never actually his either, and she's packed a bagman with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, waited until he is drunk-enough asleep not to hear her say goodbye to right? Perhaps the dogmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and has leftthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorthe Nors0571379559|title=Karate Chop, and Minna Needs Rehearsal Space|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=The reviewer picks up the book.<br>The book is called ''Minna Needs Rehearsal Space''.<br>The book is entirely made out House of one-sentence paragraphs.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs are very seldom poetic, but normally are grammatically correct sentences.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs on the whole have just one verb, unless regarding that from reported or unreported speech.<br>The book concerns a middle-aged musician and composer who does indeed need rehearsal space.<br>The book concerns a woman who suddenly gets more space than she wants when her boyfriend leaves her.<br>The boyfriend's departure causes a lot of people crowding around Minna, which causes a problem.<br>The problem might be resolved by a trip away from her city flat.<br>The title of the book might be ironic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chigozie Obioma|title=The Fishermen|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book is essentially a cautionary family tale of four brothers and the way they react to a prophecy about them by the local madman. It is also, in a sense, a coming-of-age story where Ben, the young narrator, is plunged into premature adulthood under the most brutal of circumstances. And it is about brotherly love. None of these descriptions, however, convey the fact that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBroken Bricks|author=Jennifer Clement|title=Prayers for the StolenFiona Williams|rating=3.5
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|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in rural ChilpancingoJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, Mexicobut instead, with her mothershe lives in the house on the riverbank, Rita, who works built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as a cleaning lady for a rich family. Like many of the men in their town who left to find workit might look, Ladydiit's father crossed stood the river into Americapassage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, where he is rumoured struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have another family. As a resulttwin boys - Sonny and Max, this is very much a matriarchal communitythe rainbow twins. Rita describes the situation for Ladydi Sonny's teacher: colouring reflects his mother'You men s Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't get itbelieve that they're related, yet, do you? This much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is a land of women. Mexico belongs to womenout with his mother that she's his nanny.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanClaire North|title=Falling Out House of Time|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Like the central characters in ''Falling Out of Time'', Israeli author David Grossman lost his son, a soldier named Uri, during the Middle East conflict. In this multifaceted examination of bereavement, it seems that everyone has lost a child. The genre-bending mixture of poetry, absurdist dialogue, and an inverted fairy tale reflects the difficulty of ever capturing grief in language. Each story and each strategy is like a new way of approaching the unspeakable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Samantha Ellis|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too much|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''How to be a Heroine'' is a pleasant and addictive read. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood as a voracious reader and remembers the characters that influenced her. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, ''Little Women'' and Scheherazade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Walthew|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossOdysseus
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Deep in rural France James Kerr was admitted ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a psychiatric clinicfew months after where we left off. His mental problems were deep In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and intractablethen by divine intervention never returned home. Superficially he seemed never to have got over As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the sudden death throne of his mother the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and sister when he was a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to speak Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of their loss. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan in a secret capacityfragile peace. In fact much One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his life since he went to university had involved putting up a frontsister Elektra, but doing something else in the backgroundseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>0356516075
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael ChristieKay Chronister|title=If I Fall, If I DieDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=It probably tells you With a lot about the atmosphere of this book world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for the whole time I was reading humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether itis a robotic takeover, I thought the title was ''If I Falla world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, I Die''this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. That missing second ''IfDesert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is probably at the crux a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the whole talefears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>043402306X</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Virginia BurgesEric LaRocca|title=The VirtuosoTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=The title character of Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''The VirtuosoBig Bad'' , whether that is Isabelle Bryanta home invader, a professional violinist who has earned monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the affectionate nickname end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''BeethovenThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There's Babe'is not like that. She was the youngest-ever winner It is a collection of short stories more interested in the BBC Young Musician horrors of the Year competition illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and gave her first solo performance, of Beethovenare harder to defeat than any 's violin concerto, at Royal Albert Hall. 'Her violin represented another limb to her, it was that precious. It felt so natural, like an extension of her body.Big Bad' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelle's life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam FouldsMadelaine Lucas|title=In The Wolf's MouthThirst for Salt|rating=45
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|summary=In Sicily''Love, bandits steal the sheep of I'd read, was supposed to be a young shepherd. Distraughtlight and weightless feeling, he seeks out his local Mafioso but I had always longed for helpgravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Sixteen years Overlaid with laterwisdom, two men are traveling the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to Sicily its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24- oneyear-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, a young English officerdepicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and the other an American infantryman. They are all soon thrust into a war that is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamed, familial relationships and they all must find different ways to survive its terrorshow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>0861546490
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eliza RobertsonMichael Grothaus|title=WallflowersBeautiful Shining People
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|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Eliza Robertson won the Man Booker Scholarship ''But fearing something and Curtis Brown Prize while completing her MA in Creative Writing at the University having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of East Angliawhat we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it. ''Wallflowers ''Beautiful Shining People' is already a bestseller in Robertson's native Canadarevolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. There Of what is real and what is quite some variety across the seventeen stories. Broadly speaking, though, there are a few themes: moving on from loss, finding love in the midst of gentle madnessartificial, and interactions with whether the natural world, often on the edge development of Canada's British Columbia wildernesstechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408856794</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edith PearlmanJennifer Saint|title=HoneydewAtalanta|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=American short story writer [[:Category:Edith Pearlman|Edith Pearlman]] brings us a compilation of stories that have only been seen separately in magazines over the years. This follows on from the huge success of ''Binocular Vision'' (in 2013), the short story collection that led to Ms Pearlman being presented with the National Critics' Circle Award. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444797018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Schneider|title=Brother of Sleep|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Brother I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of Sleepmy name, too. Atalanta'' tells Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the story protective eye of Elias Johannes Alder, a child born the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a god forsaken village high in formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the Austrian Vorarlberg. He came into opportunity comes – to join the world as Argonauts, a silent childfierce band of warriors, while his mother was screaming and descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the midwife wasnchance to fight in Artemis't really paying attentionname and carve out her own legendary place in history. It took What follows is a couple whirlwind of loud intonations of the Te Deum from the neglectful nurse before he finally uttered a soundchallenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649205</amazonuk>1472292154
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edwidge DanticatAmanthi Harris|title=Claire of the Sea LightBeautiful Place|rating=4.5
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|summary=Claire Limye Lamne (Claire Padma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of the Sea Light) her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born in into, but the fishing village one she thinks of Ville Rose, Haiti as her mother dieshome. Her father Nozias How she came to be at the Villa, a poor fishermanhow it became her home, spends his life trying to make a better and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for his baby to such an extent that he eventually encourages a local fabric seller to take Clairethis gentle and yet subtly violent novel. This happens on the night of Claire Padma's 7th birthday; present fails to escape her past and much like the night musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that little Claire goes missing before happens at the fabric seller can take herVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782068511</amazonuk>1784631930
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Lee178563335X|title=Bobcat and Other Stories|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=The first story in ''Bobcat'' is the title story, and this alone is worth the price of admission. Plaster it with prizes, put it in anthologies; it deserves every accolade it can get. However, the last story echoes the first, and the five tales in between are strangely repetitive, most with Midwestern North American narrators and 1980s university settings. Moreover, all seven are in the first-person; I would have appreciated more variety of perspective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182311</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Defences|author=Mary Costello|title=Academy StreetHilary Taylor|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It is 1944. Tess Lohan's mother has just died at age 40, of tuberculosis. Seven-year-old Tess is one of six children in a rural Irish family. They live at Easterfield, a centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess the history of her home: built in 1678, it was a famine hospital in the 1840s; there are numerous corpses buried on the land. He hints there may be many ghosts on the property, but the only one that haunts Tess is her dead mother. 'Memories and traces of her mother must linger all over the house – in rooms and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rug. On a cup, the mark of her hand.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Doyle|title=Here Are the Young Men|rating=4
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|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they'Here are re held when you need to pick the Young Menchildren up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won' surges forwardt let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, oozing edginesson the Norfolk coast, from the very first sentence. Is that is a bad thing? Probably not. It just means that readers may at times slip out of the storylovely place, feel themselves taking but Rachel is struggling to develop a step back real bond with the parish - and admiring she's in awe of the spare coolness of vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the novel before easing back into job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the narrativebeach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863731</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Edric1398515388|title=Sanctuary|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Everyone knows Charlotte, Emily The Boy and Anne. Not many know that this famous trio of literary sisters also had a brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, born the year after Charlotte and a year before Emily. Like his sisters, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations from the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you have most likely seen his famous painting of his sisters). Again like his sisters, however, he was destined to die young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Takashi Hiraide|title=The Guest Cat|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The Guest Cat'' had me at the cover. The reflective green material makes the cat's eyes glow Seishu Hase and glint eerily in the light. There is something ethereal and otherworldly about this novella and that is before I've even read a single word. This simple story about a Japanese couple and the cat that decides to adopt them has become an international best-seller and I was keen to find out why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447279409</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Hill|title=Black SheepAlison Watts (translator)
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|summary=Mount First of Zeal is a mining villageall, and no mistake. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across it was the side of a hillearthquake, like deep in the rows of seats in an amphitheatreocean floor, with little thought at all allowed for which created the life above the crest of the hilltsunami and this, in turn, and a lot of effort and dreams focused on caused the coal mine at the village's corenuclear meltdown. The Howker family (result was complete and how evocative that name isutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, so akin to and the noise loss of hawking coal dust livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from one's lungs), and Ted and Rose, their owners came far down the youngest list of priorities but - six months after the clan, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on to as regards tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a likeable futureconvenience store. But if He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that is a faint spark, then how safe is it so close he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the tinderbox of a coal mine?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>dog jumped in.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Peebles0989715337|title=Snake RoadPapa on the Moon|author=Marco North|rating=4.5
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|summary=No one listened when Peggy Kirkpatrick began talking about a baby called Eleanor ''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist- welldeep in the fragrant water, no one naked except her granddaughter Agathafor his beaten leather hat. You seeLong strands of their eggs wove around him, Peggy is elderly sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and she has dementiabarked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them. No one has heard of 'Eleanor'. Some days are better than others, but none are particularly good. Peggy's unpredictable and sometimes it How is - quite literally - a fight to wash her and she'll either go outside in her nightdress or wear multiple skirts indoors. that for an opening? The burden is carried most style of this novel in the time by her daughterform of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, Maryturning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, but it's Aggie who attends has the dementia carers' group in her place and it was probably this that provoked her into listening more carefully most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to what her Gran was saying and trying to learn more about her history in the hope of keeping Peggy in the presentgo on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Favel ParrettDaisy Hildyard|title=When the Night ComesEmergency|rating=54
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|summary=Little Isla has moved The summary of this book doesn't come close to Hobartexplaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, Tasmania she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the Australian mainland with bones of her mother spine which steadily increase in size and younger brothervolume. Bo is Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a chef on the Nella Danphysical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, a Danish ship supplying the Antarctic expeditionsan experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Their meeting Yet something strange is just one happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of lifea kind. As Marianne's little moments memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that carry a greater effect than anyone realises at the time, whether for the better or the worstof identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548540</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=By Night The Mountain BurnsNatalia Garcia Freire|authortitle=Juan Tomas Avila LaurelThis World Does Not Belong To Us
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|summary=Sometimes a Early comments on this debut novel will startle because it tackles from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a topic totally unknown to us or tells us of lives previously un-imagineddelight. This is the case I will agree with By Night the Mountain Burns. However, what first – tremendous is most remarkable about Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s novel no understatement – but 'a delight' is how easy it is to slip into perhaps using the story of expression in a child growing up on an isolated island in Equatorial Guineaway I'm not familiar with. We are not reading about mysterious 'others' I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. We’re reading about people like ourselves From the little I have read (in translation, who live in I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a different place which has its own constraints tendency towards the fantastical – namely poverty and isolationthe mystical realism.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276401</amazonuk>0861541901
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AsunderJennifer Saint|authortitle=Chloe AridjisElektra
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|summary=Marie, the narrator of Chloe Aridjis's second novel, ''Asunder'Elektra', is a guard at by Jennifer Saint tells the National Gallery story of three women who live in Londonthe heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. It is a simpleCassandra, subdued life she leads in this 'tiny kingdom'Clytemnestra, but it suits her: 'I had always sought quiet and Elektra are all bit players in the world and there were few movements quieter, I realised, than paint cracking over timestory of the Trojan War.' Most would find her work tedious, but over her nine years at Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the museum she has adjusted to silent women have the routine; 'unlike some of most compelling stories and the new guards, I do not suffer from boredom or listlessnessmost extreme furies.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099572753</amazonuk>1472273915
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neel Mukherjee8409290103|title=The Lives of OthersIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
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|summary= '''SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014'''Many generations of the Ghosh family live together in a single house in 1960's CalcuttaTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, albeit a very big single house. Life may be materially comfortable but not easy. Jealousycotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, in-fightingMr Patrick, to ensure that the struggle young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to keep send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the family business going (money regularly and, for a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the younger family members, the struggle two although we hear more about what Lowry has to lead the life they'd like) causes more say than the odd sleepless nightPatrick. Son Supratik has succeeded It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in choosing this country where he might be a different path thoughdanger to his wife and other children. He's tired of The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the endless consumption and acquisition and leaves home to follow young man on his Marxist beliefs, exchanging family living for discomfort and dangerway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186291</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B098FFFBH9|title=Problems with PeopleSnowcub|author=David GutersonGraham Fulbright
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|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school''Clara’s Daughter'', s animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the short space animal world. She gets a great deal of 144 pagessupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, paints Nick. Kate runs the portrait of the relationships threatening to destroy family business, a family unit. The intensity toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is conveyed with sharp stabs from Ziervogel’s spare sentenceswhere we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773797</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SmithYancey Williams|title=How to be BothCrosshairs of the Devil
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|summary=There's something which you need to know about this book: if you decide to read itAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, the book you read might not be the same as the one which I've read despite his strenuous objections and am about thanks to review. There arehis daughter, you seefinds himself living - or imprisoned, two stories from Eddie's point of view - in each copy and half the books published will have room 315 of the story Garden of Francescho Del Cossa who worked in and around Ferrara in the fifteenth centuryEden nursing home, followed by the story of George - really Georgia - with only a teenager who lives with her father and younger brother in twentieth century Cambridgetrusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. The other books will have the stories Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in reverse order. The stories are the same-trade of writing though, so here, but the experiences of the for his readers will be quite different, are his wanderings through his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114521X</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=WreakingMrs March|author=James ScudamoreVirginia Feito|rating=4.5
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|summary=A derelict mental hospital, gloomy railway arches, The problem began just after the bleak countryside publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the English coastlast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. It all comes at us in grey flashes. If Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''Wreakingbut isn't this the first time he' was s based a filmcharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, it the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would saturated with cool tones. It’s an easy novel to visualise: Scudamore’s sparenot have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, elegant style creates an almost palpable atmosphereunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952385X</amazonuk>''
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